AMD Ryzen 9 8945H vs Intel Core i5-14400

Compare AMD 8 core CPU vs Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8895 points
2% slightly better overall score
8658 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10846 points
11300 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8278 points
5% slightly better multitasking score
7821 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8127 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score
7610 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.72 points
10% slightly higher Blender score
202.91 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.00 GHz
60% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
9.5 MiB
18% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
20 MiB
25% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

115th of 1,089
119th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5-4800

Ryzen 9 8945H vs Core i5-14400 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8945H beats the Core i5-14400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-14400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-14400 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 8945H that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8945H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14400. In terms of cache, the Core i5-14400 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 8945H. The Core i5-14400 also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8945H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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